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Fairgrounds at Milwaukee

Date: 1859
Description: Elevated view of the fairgrounds in Milwaukee, the year when Abraham Lincoln spoke. The fairgrounds were located at the Brockway Grounds near Twelfth and S...
Photograph

Prize Bull at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Three men look at the first-prize bull in a pen at the Iowa State Fair. The original caption reads: "John Minish(?), North English, Iowa. 1st prize jr. yea...
Photograph

Walworth County Fair

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of the Walworth County Fair. A large crowd gathers around a carousel.
Photograph

World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: A cyanotype view of Cairo Street on the midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. An Egyptian with a large drum rides a camel as men and boys watch. The ...
Photograph

Livestock Judging at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Elevated view of crowd around horses during livestock judging. In the background are fields, a road, power lines, and in the far distance along the horizon...
Painting

The County Fair

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Description: Painting of a county fair, depicting a grandstand, harnass racing, a ferris wheel and merry-go-round typical of the event. The fair gave farmers an opportu...
Photograph

Mary Binegar with Poultry Account Book

Date: 1916
Description: Mary Binegar, president of the Kiona-Benton School Poultry Club, holds a poultry account book as she stands outdoors near a haystack and several chickens a...
Photograph

Lyme (?) Grange Fair

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Description: View of Lyme (?) Grange Fair, featuring cattle being shown in a field, a wagon, several people, and a fence.
Photograph

Distant View of a Fair

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Description: Distant view of a fair being held in a field. Animals, buildings, fences, a road, trees, and hills surround the field.
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State Fair Grounds, Oklahoma

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Description: View of the State Fair Grounds featuring a race track and a crowd seated in the grandstands.
Photograph

Cuyahoga County Fair Trotting Races

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Description: Horses pull wagons on a stretch of racetrack at the Cuyahoga County Fair while spectators gather around the track beside parked automobiles.
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Dogs by Pickup Truck

Date: 1990
Description: Six dogs are tied up near a parked pickup truck at Folk Fest.
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Harness Racing

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Description: Elevated view of four men and their horses harness racing down a road, with crowds of spectators on the sides, during a county fair in southwestern Wiscons...
Photograph

Harness Racing at a Wisconsin Fair

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Description: View from the inner track of harness racing at a local fair. The horses and their drivers can be seen racing around a tree-lined curve in the track and pas...
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Loraine Adkins with Horse at Midwest Horse Fair

Date: 1992
Description: Loraine Adkins of Madison, Wisconsin ready to participate with the Hoofbeat Ridge Drill Team of Mazomanie at the Midwest Horse Fair in the spring of 1992 o...
Photograph

Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show

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Description: A group of teenagers lounge about on bales of hay in a barn at the Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show. Cows are resting nearby on the right.
Photograph

Buffalo at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 09 1900
Description: View of a herd of buffalo at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Buffalo at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 09 1900
Description: View of a herd of buffalo at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Stallion at Jackson County Fairgrounds

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Description: Man displaying a stallion near a wooden fence and in front of several buggies and a boy standing on the left, probably at the Jackson County Fairgrounds. I...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 3

Date: 1892
Description: Third page of calendar for May and June, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine...

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